Welcome to the web page
of the International Trade and Development
Division of the School
of International Studies,Jawaharlal
Nehru University. This site is by no
means complete, and never will be given the fact that it is to be
updated frequently. However, we will soon include photographs of JNU to
give visitors to this site an idea of life in JNU as well as the
beauty of this place. For the time being, I am afraid you will have to
be content with the information in the form of the written word.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------But first things
first! The 1998-2000 MA batch is barely in its 4th semester and they have
already received offers of admission to the Phd programmes with scholarships
from prestigious universities in the US and UK, like MIT,
Chicago, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, Caltech, Rochester, Rochester Institute
of Technology, New York University, Wisconsin at Madison, Ohio State University,
State University of New York(Stony Brook) Iowa State University, USC, UC(Riverside),
London School of Economics etc . And the offers
keep rolling in. Read On...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The
Division

The International
Trade and Development Division, imprecisely
called `ITD'
by friends and foes alike, has been in existence for several decades, a
little known fact that surprises most people. Since it functioned
as a part of the Indian School of International
Studies, away
from public glare and publicity unlike theDelhi
School of Economics, and
unlike the former did not have a M.A. programme, it was, as a consequence,
not well known. However this lack of public awareness did not necessarily
imply, that the department was moribund. Indeed very prominent economists,
like the late ProfessorA.K. Dasgupta
and Professor B.S. Minhas
were at various times part of the department. Among those who visited the
division were the Nobel Laureates Sir John
Hicks and James
Meade. Other prominent economists who
have visited the department include Partha
Sarathi Dasgupta.While the department
did not have a M.A. programme, it did have an excellent Ph.D
programme. Indeed, several eminent economists,
who got their Ph.Ds from the division joined the faculties of universities
like Bombay University,Madras
University,
the Indian Institutes of Management
at Ahmedabad
and Bangalore,
etc. Some also joined the government as advisors to various ministries,even
representing India in international negotiations over important issues
like Intellectual Property Rights etc. while others joined industry.
However public awareness about the activities of the department or even
its existence remained low. When Jawaharlal
Nehru University was in the process of being
set up in the late sixties-early seventies, the Indian
School of International Studies decided
to merge with it. While the new university was to have an economics department
of its own with its own M.A. programme, ITD
was not part of it. Almost two decades later when India embarked
on its liberalisation programme, it became painfully obvious that much
of economics that was being taught in universities and formed part of conventional
wisdom in India was hopelessly out of date, if ever right at all. For instance,
even economists opposed to Manmohan Singh's Reform programme conceded that
the economic insularity and over-regulation that India had imposed upon
herself had no justification even in theory and the results of such a policy
had been, not surprisingly, to sap the the economy of its vitality. In
this entirely changed milieu the need was felt for a programme that, among
other things studied recent developments in economic theory, in the fields
of macroeconomics,development
economics
and finance
and in particular laid emphasis on India's increasing integration with
theInternational Economy
. This, in short is the genesis of the M.A.
Economics(with
specialisation in the world economy) programme.
We invite you to explore this site for any information that you may need
by clicking on the links below. Should you have doubts, please don't hesitate
to have them cleared by writing/e-mailing to me at at the following
e-mail address:dsg68@jnuniv.ernet.in